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| TANZANIA TOURISM |
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| RUAHA |
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Ruaha National Park in southern Tanzania
is the second largest national park
in the country covering an area of
about 10,300 km2. It was established
in 1910 as part of the Saba Game Reserve
and was gazetted as a National Park
in 1964. The area was previously inhabited
by small groups of the Wahehe people.
The Park is part of the Ruaha ecosystem
which also includes Rungwa-Kisigo
Game Reserve to the northwest. The
ecosystem, which covers an area of
approximately 45,000 km2, protects
a large part of the catchment for
the Great Ruaha and Mzombe rivers.
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Ruaha is interesting as it represents
a transition zone where eastern and
southern African species of fauna
and flora overlap. Miombo woodland
with its attendant fauna is common
in central Africa but not four further
north in Tanzania. The Park is the
most southerly-protected area where
Grants gazelle, lesser kudu and striped
hyaena are found.
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| SERENGETI |
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| Serengeti National Park is undoubtedly
the best-known wildlife sanctuary in
the world, unequalled for its natural
beauty and scientific value. With more
than two million wildebeest, half a
million Thomson's gazelle, and a quarter
of a million zebra, it has the greatest
concentration of plains game in Africa.
The wildebeest and zebra moreover form
the star cast of a unique spectacular
- the annual Serengeti migration. |
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| The name 'Serengeti' comes from the
Maasai language and appropriately means
an 'extended place'. The National Park,
with an area of 12,950 square kilometres,
is as big as Northern Ireland, but its
ecosystem, which includes the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area, the Maswa Game Reserve
and the Maasai Mara Game reserve (in
Kenya), is roughly the size of Kuwait.
It lies between the shores of Lake Victoria
in the west, Lake Eyasi in the south,
and the Great Rift Valley to the east.
As such, it offers the most complex
and least disturbed ecosystem on earth. |
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